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5 Centimes
| Issuer | Comité Municipal d'Approvisionnement de Vanves |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Obverse description | Circular legend in two concentric rings reading COMITÉ MUNICIPAL D'APPROVISIONNEMENT · VILLE · DE VANVES, with the words VILLE DE occupying the central field in large raised letters arranged concentrically. The plain field between the legend rings is undecorated. The overall design is utilitarian in character, consistent with wartime emergency token production. |
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| Reverse lettering | 5c. 1918 |
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Vanves, a small commune immediately south of Paris, issued these aluminium nécessité tokens in 1918 when wartime metal requisitions and hoarding had stripped ordinary small change from everyday commerce. Municipal committees across France improvised their own fiduciary substitutes rather than wait for central relief — Vanves being among dozens of communes that did so, each with its own issuing authority and redemption terms. The aluminium composition reflects what was actually available, not what was preferred.